before supernanny and sketch time..

I'll post a few from last week.
The darling toddler whose mouth, believe it or not, is dead on (even though I overworked the eye til it was mucked up) Something about it works and it's only a sketch and when you're sketching every day, or even 4Xper wk who cares! This is so free-ing isn't it? Oh, yeah, back to my original statement. The toddler is my grandbaby, asleep while we were babysitting (which also explains the overworked eye - the light was very dim)
The window and the door done way apart in time are of my mom's childhood home which she adores and what I would like to do someday in the not too distant future is to put the entire house together in it's proper order and setting and do a watercolour perhaps with some ribbon embroydery foxgloves in the forground. Anything's possible. Right?!

How Handy; a post for EM#10

Those are some old looking hands, for sure. Dried up from honest labour but man, don't you hate seeing your mother's hands on your wrists? What's with THAT!? The really bad one is in the cutest little book I've had for ages and use now to be unobtrusive (or sneaky)It's abt 5" by 3.5"

EM challange #'s 8 &23

These are in a wonderful old psychology text with pages that take watercolour well and don't intimidate the novice. Can't remember where I read this very good advice.

Favorite hiking find.

Loading loads of sketches

I'm really trying to emulate the 'sketch a day' folks. I'm sOo glad the internet is a part of our lives. This makes my doodling so much more fun. I LOVE browsing art journal sites.

Hurrah, easy as pie to post!

Thank you blogger! I love that this is easy enough for Joe Idiot,(yeah, that would be me) to do. The posts below were made on the road in the prairies this fall. One road doodle was coloured on the computer as well as the Lethbridge Catholic church sketch on this post.

the autumn return

I've been hanging out a lot at Danny Gregory's Everyday Matters (and if I knew what I was doing I would have just been successful pasting in his url) damn, I hate that I find all of this sOo difficult. Any way. . . totally inspired by so many participants of the site I've been sketching so now I'll try posting. I forget how every single time it seems plus I'm trying something different this time. I sure hope it's easy!

sketch of Joya'86

sketch of Joya'86
Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

OK,I know. Old as the hills this one. The dimpled darling pictured here is now 21. Lazy yes, but I figure if I miss one entry I'll start to miss them all and I'm actually doing a quick sketch 2 or 3x per wk which is unheard of for me.
I also need to figure out how to find my password so that I can comment on the creativity of everyone here.
Oh, yeah, this is for IF's "nurishment" as that is a cob of corn the poor waif is husking for herself at 1yr of age.

Kieshia the hunter

Kieshia the hunter
Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

I was going to skip this week but being a part of illustration friday has been such a motivator for me that I actually did this sketch in my 'it doesn't matter if it looks like crap, just DO IT' book.
"If you're looking for mischief look at your cat"

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Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

for illustration Friday's AMBITION

e-willis island sketch

e-willis island sketch
Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

We were quite DARING when we decided to kayak the Broken Island Group in April expecting strong winds and dumping, driving rain. The fact that we enjoyed calm seas and sunshine was pure bonus and SOo enjoyable...but we were initially quite daring.

reinventing our front yard

reinventing our front yard
Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

I didn't think 'reinventing' was a theme I could participate in until scribbling in my journal/idea repository I realized I'm constantly remodeling and, in fact, reinventing my physical environment.

AAM#1 blog

AAM#1 blog
Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

I wanted to add an image of "alone" to illustration Friday while I figure out this blogging stuff. Hence, a pre-done entry. Still puzzling over the how to post the entire entry. How many wks will it take for me to learn one new thing? Lord, do I feel my age and more! Sue

travel

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Originally uploaded by bluemoons.

A favorite and dependable way to travel.

Travel sketch

Here's hoping this works out for me. Learn something new each day ..right? Found www.illustrationfriday.com today and in order to participate have (hopefully) created a blog site. Will decorate the site later...I hope.